**Bayer AG cleared one big hurdle for its $66 billion takeover of Monsanto, winning European Union approval for the deal after agreeing to bolster BASF by selling it seeds, pesticides and digital agriculture technology.

According to agweb.com, the companies’ concessions allayed the EU’s antitrust “concerns in full.”

Bayer and Monsanto must still convince U.S. regulators who are pushing for the companies to divest more assets to resolve antitrust concerns.